Join BosNOMA, Open Architecture Collaborative Boston and the BSA Equity Roundtable for a screening of the short film, Sista in the Brotherhood Tuesday, February 27. The 20-minute, narrative, short film is about a black tradeswoman who faces discrimination on a new job site and who must choose between making a stand or keeping her job.
The film was inspired by the doctoral thesis of co-Executive Producer, Dr. Roberta Hunte and partly based on the experience of Latina Director Dawn Jones Redstone’s experience as a union carpenter/longtime tradeswomen instructor at Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. The original script was written by Dawn Jones Redstone and Kjerstin Johnson. Sista was made with an almost-all female crew, including 50 percent women of color.
Following the screening, in collaboration with The Policy Group on Tradeswomen’s Issues and the Boston Building Trades Unions, there will be a panel discussion focusing on the perspectives of women and minorities in construction and design.
Find out more and register for the event here.
Event Details:
February 27 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
BSA Space
290 Congress Street, Suite 200
Boston, MA 02110
This Earth Week, we’ll be covering five landmark buildings exemplifying new approaches to building performance and sustainability.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Klarman Building is the first hospital in the northeast to implement chilled beams in an inpatient setting. Early energy analysis demonstrated that the use of chilled beams would be the best way to reduce building energy use.
For this strategy to work, however, the peak thermal loads of the façades could not exceed the capacity of the chilled beams. An integrated design approach and in-house modeling allowed for constant tuning of the façade to optimize glazing, solar exposure and massing. The building orients glazing to face true north and south to minimize heat gain and maximize occupant comfort, resulting in a 15% reduction in peak solar load.
Beyond performance, the distinctive serrated terracotta façade reflects the scale and cadence of individual patient rooms, providing a delicate scale and texture to the façade.
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